Our View: Get more rural kids in pipeline for med school

7:11 PM,
Dec. 12, 2013

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Press-Citizen Editorial Board
Our View

Last week, the University of Iowa Health Alliance announced that it is donating $1 million to a program expected to bring 20 doctors to rural communities across the state where access to convenient medical care has been dwindling.

The gift will help launch the Rural Iowa Primary Care Loan Repayment Program, which will pay off student loans for medical students who agree to practice in rural areas for five years after graduation. (State lawmakers provided $1.6 million last year to help establish the program, which was pitched as a public/private initiative.)